OUR DOG GROOMING COURSES

We run all of our dog grooming training courses from our City & Guilds approved centre in Sale, Manchester. As a full time dog grooming training centre our students have access to courses throughout the year. We want our students to leave us equipped with the dog grooming skills that meet their future needs, whether that is for their own grooming salon, working from home, mobile dog grooming or to improve their existing grooming skills.

As a professional dog grooming school we are able to be quite flexible in accommodating each student's needs. Please feel free to openly discuss your requirements from your course with us, as we can often customise some elements of the course content to ensure you receive the richest learning experience possible.

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THE FIRTREE GROOMING ACADEMY DIPLOMA

Each of our courses includes a Diploma, awarded on satisfactory completion of the course.  The courses are module based and allow an ongoing assessment of practical abilities, trimming styles, breed recognition, equipment usage and communications.  All students are given feedback on their achievements throughout the course and the opportunity to revise their levels if needed.  Under this system, students are not required to take a final exam, nor to undergo a practical test at the end of the course.

ABOUT FIR TREE GROOMING ACADEMY TUTORS

All of our main teaching staff are City and Guilds qualified teachers (C&G Cert. 7302, PTTLS, DTTLS). All students are supervised and receive training from our teachers throughout the course. Combined, they have in excess of 50 years experience in grooming and canine beauty. They have a close involvement with the canine world through grooming, exhibiting (at championship level), kennel management, animal husbandry and breeding quality Kennel Club registered dogs.

On selected parts of some courses, we introduce students to breed-specialist groomers. These are people who bring a particularly specialist input to our students from a knowledgeable person who has in-depth knowledge of a particular breed (Cocker Spaniels, for example). Generally, these additional tutors are people who breed and exhibit in one specific breed, and therefore have an in-depth knowledge and experience of that particular breed’s requirements and pit-falls. These are the owners and exhibitors who you see grooming and handling – and many times winning! – at Crufts and the other major championship shows each year. Their knowledge and instruction in their own breed is unsurpassed.

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